In this installment of the Quarantine Lectures, Prof. Chad Pecknold of the Catholic University of America will deliver a talk titled “Aquinas on Knowing and Naming God.”

What does it mean to speak truly and well of God? In the first part of his Summa Theologiae, St. Thomas Aquinas helps us to understand how we know and name God indirectly and imperfectly by analogy to created things. This lecture will focus on his famous teaching concerning “the analogy of being” as a rational safeguard against idolatry — helping us to avoid the errors of agnosticism and projectionism which have plagued ancient and modern thinkers alike — and also as a sure guide to speaking well of God in our time.

This lecture will be livestreamed at 8:00pm ET/5:00pm PT through Zoom, on the Thomistic Institute’s YouTube channel, and through Facebook Live.

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